The real infrastructure debate: how metrofitting can repair cities and lifestyles

Making sense of the infrastructure slush bucket

May 22, 2019

It's election time and the major parties have been making infrastructure announcements worth billions of dollars. But where's the user research, will we really get what we need and will it contribute to the future we want?

When design gets personal

May 8, 2019

Several months after joining our project group on The Future of Death and Ageing, content strategist Peter Roper shared a deeply personal experience – the death of his twin brother Daniel. Peter says he found it difficult to talk about but Daniel's death at home, surrounded by family, is inspiring.

90 people, 2 days: a crash course in design thinking

April 16, 2019

Portable recently teamed up with Vicsport and VicHealth to run the 2019 Sport Jam – a workshop for 90 sports administrators from more than 20 organisations governing sports ranging from calisthenics and cycling to tennis, netball, basketball, baseball, sailing and water-polo. Some of Victoria’s biggest local government councils were also represented at the workshop, which was part of Vicsport’s ‘Forward Thinking Series’.

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Design Your Death: a Portable R&D Demo Evening

December 4, 2018

You’re invited to Portable for the launch of our R&D into the future of death and ageing in Australia. We’ll present our report, and you’ll get hands-on with a series of new, interactive digital prototypes. These tools aim to improve death literacy, enable conversations, and create better relationships with loved ones by creating a better relationship with death.